I saw this rig was going to run out of work last night. So, I stayed up late and watched the last GPU Wu's run out, then updated to the new client and switch it over to CPU WU's. I took out one of the 7770's to reduce the power draw and heat output. I'll probably be doing this as the other rigs run out.

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I need to do the same- definitely won't need to run 3x7770's anymore

I might leave 2 of them in there for now- the 2nd one shouldn't consume any power due to AMD's Zero Core power thingy (or whatever it's called).

OS choice can be a factor with your CPU PPD as well. I think an i7-3770K @ 4.3GHz can easily do around 7K average on Ubuntu. Windows can be a mixed bag, around 5-6.5K depending on what you are doing and if you run GPUs on F@H and stuff that uses some cores.

I downvoltaged my main computer's CPU a bit (by ~0.06V, to 1.28V) today.
We are getting very warm days at the moment, so it was starting to "sweat". After the downvoltage, it stays below 45°C most of the time (was 42°C at the time of writing). Which is down by 8°C from what it used to be. YAY!
I know it should be able to run on as little as 1.22V on this clock (tested a couple of months ago), but I am not 100% sure. After the mother's day challenge, gonna test to be sure.
Crunching is great. But crunching while making a smaller footprint on the environment by using less power is even better.

Yeah what Norton is saying is true. Feels so disappointing. Seems like we forgot how much PPD was considered "good" before.

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Indeed. After a couple months of getting 600k, being down so much is a bit disappointing, but back early last fall a 2700k doing 6k PPD was very solid. I do appreciate being able to contribute to more projects though

I received Ion's Athlon X2 HP pull today, and I threw in a case with an old 80GB IDE drive and Ubuntu installation. I'm going to re-install BOINC on my laptop as well (PII X920 2.2GHz) which should be good for another 1.5K average PPD. My list of computers in TeamViewer now has a scroll bar again lol.

I received Ion's Athlon X2 HP pull today, and I threw in a case with an old 80GB IDE drive and Ubuntu installation. I'm going to re-install BOINC on my laptop as well (PII X920 2.2GHz) which should be good for another 1.5K average PPD. My list of computers in TeamViewer now has a scroll bar again lol.

I updated to 7.0.64 on all my rigs but for some reason I lost all the work left on my HTPC (10 or so WUs). First it wouldn't connect to client so I uninstalled it and installed again, this time it connected but it wouldn't resume the previous WUs. None of the other rigs exhibited this behavior.